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Title change: The title appears on the transcription as "Unnamed schottische."

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Key: G

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Strains: 2 (low-high, 4-4)

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Compass: 16

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Rendition: 1r-2r

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Phrase Structure: ABAC QRQS (abcd abce qrst qrue)

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Stylistic features: A number of cases of 2/3 and 4/1 slurring pairs, which are not typical of his playing on breakdowns.

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Related Tune(s): This tune was also played as a polka. See "Polka in G."

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Handwritten: Same tune as #51, but in different time & rhythm. Repeats contain several variations. He pattered & repeated 1/2 measure at letter a).

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No kin of this tune have been located, though the three eighth notes ending each strain remind one of the hornpipes and clogs of the nineteenth century. Henry Reed played it twice. The first time (AFS 13033b03) he called it a polka and played it at a fairly lively pace; he called this performance of it a schottische, made the pace slower, and used more of a dotted-eighth-and-sixteenth rhythm.

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